Agent skill · data analytics · aiskillstore
service-mesh-observability
Implement comprehensive observability for service meshes including distributed tracing, metrics, and visualization. Use when setting up mesh monitoring, debugging latency issues, or implementing SLOs for service communication.
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific templates and queries for implementing observability in service meshes that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires grafana, jaeger, prometheus installed locally. About 4k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 405 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Service Mesh Observability Complete guide to observability patterns for Istio, Linkerd, and service mesh deployments. When to Use This Skill Setting up distributed tracing across services Implementing service mesh metrics and dashboards Debugging latency and error issues Defining SLOs for service communication Visualizing service dependencies Troubleshooting mesh connectivity Core Concepts 1. Three Pillars of Observability 2. Golden Signals for Mesh Signal Description Alert Threshold -------- ------------- ----------------- Latency Request duration P50, P99 P99 > 500ms Traffic Requests per second Anomaly detection Errors 5xx error rate > 1% Saturation Resource utilization > 80% Templates Template 1: Istio with Prometheus & Grafana Template 2: Key Istio Metrics Queries Template 3: Jaeger Distributed Tracing Template 4: Linkerd Viz Dashboard Template 5: Grafana Dashboard JSON Template 6: Kiali Service Mesh Visualization Template 7: OpenTelemetry Integration Alerting Rules Best Practices Do's Sample appropriately - 100% in dev, 1-10% in prod Use trace context - Propagate headers consistently Set up alerts - For golden signals Correlate metrics/traces - Use exemplars Retain strategically - Hot/cold storage tiers Don'ts Don't over-sample - Storage costs add up Don't ignore cardinality - Limit label values Don't skip dashboards - Visualize dependencies Don't forget costs - Monitor observability costs Resources Istio Observability Linkerd Observability OpenTelemetry Kiali
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills aiskillstore/service-mesh-observability--606b21